Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard
French botanist, mycologist and physician (1752-1793)
Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist fʁɑ̃swa pjɛʁ byljaʁ]; 24 November 1752 in Aubepierre-sur-Aube, Haute-Marne – 26 September 1793 in Paris), also known simply as Pierre Bulliard, was a French physician and botanist. The standard author abbreviation Bull. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Bulliard studied in Langres, where he became interested in natural history, and afterwards a position was obtained for him in the abbey in Clairvaux and later he moved to Paris where he study medicine. There he also practiced as a physician. He tutored the son of General Claude Dupin. He was an able draughtsman and also learnt to engrave. He invented a way of printing natural history plates in colour and used the method in his own publications.
In 1779 he commenced a work on the poisonous plants of France. It was seized by the police on the grounds that it was a dangerous work.
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